From:	Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Message-Id:	<199905161721.NAA11293@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA>
Subject:	Re: rpm Home Page [Was: DSM/scripting spec, version 0.1]
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Date:	Sun, 16 May 1999 13:21:07 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To:	<373EF32F.30BB35B7@bigfoot.com> from "Richard Dawe" at May 16, 99 05:32:47 pm
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Bonjour M. Richard Dawe
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> > You mentioned earlier that your zippo is like rpm. Could you give me
> > some links to the info about it? If you will support rpm's interface,
> > then I can start developing front-end.
> 
> http://www.rpm.org/ is rpm's home page. The HOWTO is probably the best
> place to start. I think there will probably have to be some extra install
> options to enable/disable execution of scripts on install, etc., but I
> plan to make zippo's parameters as close to rpm's as possible. I'll be
> able to tell you more when I actually start coding proper.

I did not follow this thread, but did you look at the way other distributions
implement there package installer ?  Debian for example use dpkg.

I don't know much about rpm nor dpkg but I heard good things about them.

-- 
au revoir, alain
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